Laughter Therapy For Your Overall Health

There may be circumstances in life that are serious enough to make you cry. However, crying may help you since it is an outburst of your emotions, but laughter is definitely a better cure when it comes to facing any serious situation and also helps to combat stress and adversities of life. Laughter and health are closely related terms. “Laughter is best medicine” is a clichéd phrase that we keep hearing time and again, but if we truly understand the essence of this phrase and works upon it in reality, half our sorrows will soon fade away.

Laughter therapy can be termed as something similar to aerobic exercise as it flushes out distressful and bad emotions within our body that causes chemical effects, which may prove to be injurious for our health. Stress not only affects our psyche, it also has adverse affects on our physical health as well. Though no on can stay happy all the time, but laughing your stresses away especially when your life’s going topsy-turvy can help you a lot. The good thing is that it does not necessarily have to be a hearty laugh, even a artificial laugh or a small grin is enough to keep you relaxed for the day and this is what laughter therapy helps you in. It helps you find those small excuses to laugh that you have been missing out in your busy life.

Laughter therapy helps you in increasing the endorphins (natural painkiller for the body) level along with cells that annihilate tumors and viruses, and curbs the growth of stress hormones. It also reduces blood pressure and increases the amount of oxygen in the blood. Laughter therapy is similar to taking of a tranquilizer and gives a boost to your immune system keeping you healthy all the time. It improves the body’s ability to heal itself and also keeps you cheerful. Consequently, when there are so many benefits of laughter then why cry? Watching a comedy movie or TV soap can be helpful. Otherwise, joining a laughter club or consulting a laughter therapist can be a good alternative.

Dr. Madan Kataria is a Physician living in Bombay, India. He initiated one of the first laughter club in March 1995, Laughing Clubs International. Within a year, he opened around eighty more clubs within India, and hopes that the trend will be followed by other countries as well. The members from all these clubs normally gather in some park every morning before going for work. They raise their hands in the air, to remove all inhibitions, and start with their laughter therapy to rejuvenate themselves once again like little kids.

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